Scanner traffic indicates there is an accident at Broadway and Hawthorne as of 2 p.m. A vehicle has overturned. Details aren’t clear yet but information from the scanner indicates that one lane is blocked.

Humboldt Bay Fire tweeted,

HBF is responding to a reported extrication at Broadway and W. Hawthorne. Avoid the area.

UPDATE 2:11 p.m.: Photo from Oliver Cory. Cory says that one southbound lane of traffic is closed–the number two or outside lane.

UPDATE 2:44 p.m.: According to a spokesperson for the Eureka Police Department, the Ford pickup, a city vehicle, was going northbound on Broadway before the driver attempted to make a left onto Hawthorne. A Mercedes going southbound struck the back of the truck which flipped the truck over on its driver’s side. The Mercedes was also badly damaged. The photos below were provided by Jessica Ernst.

Wow! That mercedes really punched it. Wunder if cell phone could be a factor. There have been a lot of accidDents lately where that could be a possibility. Maybe people caught talking on cell phones should be treated like DUI’s. Making a SOBER decision to put others at risk is in some ways as bad as making an impaired decision. I don’t know that the case here. But the roads and HWY’s are getting pretty risky around here. Everywhere else too, I guess. My next rig will be the biggest one I can afford, maybe with a big cow catcher for a front bumper.